TRENTON — A Princeton man charged with animal cruelty was banned from interacting with any dogs as part of his bail restriction ordered by Judge Mark J. Fleming on Friday.

Michael G. Rosenberg was indicted twice for animal cruelty for allegedly physically abusing one dog to death and for brutally beating his personal mix-breed dogs.

“He calls himself a dog trainer,” said Deputy First Assistant Prosecutor Doris Galuchie. “He essentially picks the dogs up and throws them to the ground and that is his way of training them.”

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The 31-year-old rushed into the status meeting, and remained silent as his private defense attorney, James Wronko, asked the court for more time on the first indictment and to have an expert witness review the deceased canine’s postmortem report.

Rosenberg was indicted in February for allegedly killing a client’s dog, Shyanne.

According to reports, he violently beat the dog with a crop whip, picked it up and slammed it into the ground, and jabbed his fingers into the dog’s ribs, as a way to punish the animal for lashing out during a training session. According to Galuchie, the dog suffered four broken ribs, one of which punctured a lung, and hyperthermia. Rosenberg did not seek medical treatment for the animal which eventually died.

The defendant was indicted again in June, for allegedly abusing his own dogs. According to the press release, on diverse dates between February through August 2012 in Princeton, Rosenberg purposely, knowingly or recklessly, tormented, tortured, or unnecessarily or cruelly beat his own mixed breed dogs, Kaiser and Sanford.

According to the complaints signed by Animal Control Officer Mark Johnson on January 31, 2013, Rosenberg repeatedly picked his dogs up and threw them across the room, slamming them into a concrete floor. The dogs did not die but have suffered severe trauma and bodily harm.

Rosenberg was represented by a public defender for the second charge of animal cruelty and pleaded not guilty to the crime.

“Bail has not been set on either of the offenses but since he has been appearing in court, the state has no objection to bail as ROR (released on his own recognizance.) However, we do want to impose a condition that Mr. Rosenberg not have any interaction with any dogs, including his own, which are the subject of the new indictment,” said Galuchie. “The dogs are currently with someone in Massachusetts, and I also want to make clear that Mr. Rosenberg cannot visit the dogs. I’ve also heard, and I have no proof of this, that the dogs may be brought here on occasion for him to visit with, but given the fact that the dogs are the victims, so to speak, in the indictment, he should not have any contact with them.”

The first indictment charges Rosenberg with a third-degree crime and the second indictment charges him with two counts of fourth-degree animal cruelty. A fourth-degree crime which carries a maximum penalty of 18 months in prison and a $10,000 fine.